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ESG part of financial sustainability of infrastructure: ClearBridge

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations are part of calculating long term financial sustainability of infrastructure investments, according to ClearBridge Investments. ClearBridge, which was known as RARE Infrastructure until earlier ...

Ausbil drops fossil fuel companies from sustainable fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... transition risk." Ausbil notes the energy transition is "well underway" and that governments around the world are accelerating policy initiatives that support the substitution of fossil fuels with renewable fuel sources. "That trend is accelerating ...

Investors back climate bill

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... This is being hampered in Australia by the lack of "clear long term direction" and a "coordinated national climate change policy suite," O'Connor said. O'Connor noted that while investment in low carbon opportunities is happening in Australia ...

Social premium on the rise: Federated Hermes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... corporate culture, he noted. "Does a company have an appropriate health and safety process, do they have a human rights policy," Grant said. "Third party providers will track that, but does it look like it's just ticking the boxes? To assess that, you ...

Biden inauguration brings climate challenge for Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... greenhouse gas emissions by 26 to 28% below 2005 levels by 2030, according to the latest NDC. By not having a strong national policy towards decarbonisation, Australia runs the risk of having a less optimally managed transition, Herd said. "It becomes ...

Australia's Paris Agreement carbon commitments criticised

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... alone with the Paris Agreement's stronger 1.5 degree C limit." Jane Rennie, CPA Australia general manager external affairs, policy and advocacy, said Australia had "stuck a spoke in the wheel" of an increasingly ambitious cycle of climate action under ...

Science-based targets key to addressing the world's biggest challenges

LOUISE WATSON  |  TUESDAY, 29 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... governments committing to the transition away from fossil fuels. In Australia, the 2018 Banking Royal Commission and ensuing policy debate surrounding the concept of "members' best interest" also created discussion about the role ESG plays in creating ...

Report calls out AIA's coal-based assets, policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 22 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... "It's only one of 11 insurers around the world to have done so. However, AIA is the only one of that group that has no policy on coal investments yet. To be fair, there is some variability among those other 10 policies, but they all have made commitments. ...

Auction system proposed to halve electricity emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 22 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... related to coal-fired generation, D'Hotman said. "The next paper we have coming out would be looking at the impact of the policy on communities that rely on coal fired generation and how do we support their work as it happens," he said. "You can ...

Deep Decarbonisation: Green Hydrogen, Net Zero, and the Future of the EU-ETS

MARK LEWIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... marginal-abatement option that ultimately clears the EU-ETS over the long term. And with good reason, we think: given the policy-based nature of the EU-ETS and the ultimate policy objective of achieving net-zero emissions in the EU by 2050, a whole new ...